GissaMittJobb
@GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 days ago:
He’s always lied about the self-driving capabilities of the cars and promised timelines that have never held. Print this statement out and use it as toilet paper
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 4 days ago:
I believe there was a 100% tariff in place pre-Trump meltdown on Chinese EVs in the U.S, making them less viable in that market. The EU also tariffs them heavily, which is quite a pity.
- Comment on I can't believe it 1 week ago:
I’d eat that, especially at that price. Not even British
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 1 week ago:
True, I didn’t consider that. This particular instance warrants a user script
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 1 week ago:
Seems like something that should be upstreamed. We’re not on Reddit anymore, the source code is open and contributions get accepted. The need for userscripts has been removed basically
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 week ago:
While I broadly agree with your sentiment,
Why can’t you compile Swift outside of MacOS
You can compile Swift on Windows and Linux. There are other tools required to build macOS and iOS-apps bundled with XCode that prevents building those on other platforms, but Swift itself is available standalone.
- Comment on Sweden unveils its largest military aid package for Ukraine worth nearly $1.6 billion 3 weeks ago:
We have a vested interest in keeping Russia at bay. They have been routinely violating our airspace around Gotland for a good long while now, and we’re not amused.
- Comment on What exercises should i do at the gym to correct winged scapula and rounded shoulders? 3 weeks ago:
I’m convinced doing deadlifts has helped me posturally.
- Comment on One-handed games? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think I changed the difficulty-settings.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 4 weeks ago:
Realistically, people aren’t going to attain their goals trying to do a Twinkie CICO diet though, even though it might be theoretically possible.
I wish people would just move on from posting about CICO already, it’s long since outlived its usefulness as a concept
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 4 weeks ago:
The best form of exercise for you is the form that you actually do consistently week after week. If this means working out at home, then that’s fine. Given that you’re not trying to break any records, this might just be fine for you.
I’ve done many different forms of working throughout the years, one of which was to work out at home/local outdoor gym. I did this because there were no gyms at what I considered to be a reasonable distance from home, and I considered that to be too much of an impediment to actually get the work done consistently.
I did get stronger from it, and used it as a part of losing weight, which I wanted on account of being overweight at that time.
I’ve since stopped doing that routine and moved to lifting weights at a gym, which I considered attainable since I moved to a place with gyms very close by. I did this because working out at home had basically reached a plateau as far as strength was concerned - lifting weights at a gym will get you stronger at a faster pace.
I think checking out the stuff that Hybrid Calisthenics does could be worthwhile for you. Do some stuff at home for now if that feels better for you, and then evaluate later on if it keeps working for you.
- Comment on One-handed games? 4 weeks ago:
How do I get into it? I’ve tried and it’s not really sticking, to be honest.
- Comment on I'm looking to buy something like a reverse wheelbarrow, what do I call that? 1 month ago:
You might be looking for a handcart. Popular during medieval times, and among Mormon pioneers.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
There’s potential for mitigating some of the negative impacts using a mixed approach, although I’m not convinced it’s going to be straightforward or even worthwhile.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Please refer to the section about the negative effects of reducing property taxes.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Using retirees as a tool to work against property taxes has historically been an effective strategy, but it’s important to remember:
- What we’re actually trying to accomplish
- Will the proposed change be effective in accomplishing the goal
- Will the change have other consequences that are negative to the extent where the potential benefits outweigh the consequences in aggregate
- Are there any alternative means to accomplish the original goal
One-by-one:
What we’re actually trying to accomplish
Seems to me that the root question is one of housing affordability, in particular for retirees, who may have a lot of assets, but limited cash flow
Will the proposed change be effective in accomplishing the goal
Reducing/capping property taxes does indeed make it easier for some retirees to keep affording their homes, but reducing property taxes makes real estate a more lucrative investment, driving up the overall prices of real estate. This applies for both private persons intending to use the property to live in, for private persons looking seek rent, and corporate actors doing the same. Messing with property taxes is a large part of the housing affordability issue present in many places in the U.S and elsewhere (zoning laws being another major contributor, in particular those mandating single family homes, and lack of public housing being the other major contributor). Hence, this change would only benefit those lucky enough to have purchased a home in the past, at the expense of all retirees not already that lucky, which are now less likely to be able to do so.
Will the change have other consequences that are negative to the extent where the potential benefits outweigh the consequences in aggregate
Apart from driving up the prices of real estate for other retirees, everyone else interested in purchasing a home will also feel this broad increase in prices. This has led to large swaths of the population being effectively priced out of home ownership. This has the second order effect of making owning rentals more lucrative, as higher rents can be charged, further exacerbating the larger problem of housing affordability, but now also for even poorer people.
Finally, reductions in real estate taxes limit what public services can be funded through their use. In the U.S, this primarily means schools, infrastructure, firefighting, transit etc, all of which are suffering a lot in quality, much as a consequence of having messed with property taxes in the past.
There’s a very, very strong case to be made that the consequences have very much outweighed the benefits in this scenario. I would even say that they have been devastating, being part of the root cause of a large amount of issues seen today.
Are there any alternative means to accomplish the original goal
There clearly are good means to tackle this problem in other ways, the principal of which I believe should be massive public investment in social housing. By building a huge supply of high quality homes affordable to everyone, we make sure no one will have to be forced to go without an acceptable home, regardless of whether they are retired or not.
The second strategy should be to entirely remove the kind of zoning laws that have contributed to the kind of increase in housing prices seen today - mandating that only single family homes should be allowed to be built on massive lots with low utilization is hugely harmful to housing affordability.
These two measures would address housing prices having gone up in the way they have historically, which would also lead to property taxes not rising in such a dramatic fashion.
What should never be done, however, is reducing or capping property taxes.
- Comment on 🐸 time 1 month ago:
True? Yes. Climate solution? No.
- Comment on Top Economist Has Winning Idea for Trump's Trade War: Tariffs for US Oligarchs 1 month ago:
My body is ready for targeted sanctions against all Musk-related businesses. Seize all assets he and his companies hold in the EU and use them to make up for the frozen aid to Ukraine
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
It’s completely baffling that there are people unironically still defending gas stoves in 2025. There’s no discussion to be had on the subject any more, induction is superior and that’s final.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
The interfaces are usually really bad, yes. The technology itself still makes up for this particular shortcoming, but they need to step up their game.
- Comment on Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”. 1 month ago:
From what I gather from the Perplexity CEO, he is just that type of Musk-tier cringelord, so yes, probably
- Comment on Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”. 2 months ago:
My god, could he have chosen a name more cringe than this? Fuck.
- Comment on The priorities of life 2 months ago:
With a pannier rack and baskets to hang on the rack, I can carry all the groceries we need for 1-2 weeks if I so wish on my bike, no problems whatsoever.
- Comment on Bitly adds interstitial ads to shortened URLs, unlocking new revenue stream 2 months ago:
Honestly, just never use link shorteners. QR codes have basically completely killed their use-case, and various sharing tools take care of what little QR codes do not.
- Comment on Branded pothole repairs. 2 months ago:
The reason your roads have so many potholes is because where you live likely has too much road infrastructure to support relative to the amount of taxes collected to maintain said infrastructure.
In other words, it’s insolvent.
- Comment on Lost in translation 2 months ago:
Voice message transcription could probably be a pretty good accessibility-feature for chat apps, I think.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 2 months ago:
Llama has several restrictions making it quite a bit less open than Grok or DeepSeek.
- Comment on They're coming 2 months ago:
The goonmaxxening is soon upon us
- Comment on If you're falling apart at only 27 you're in real trouble 2 months ago:
That’s just most people though, isn’t it?
It’s a bit messed up that we humans have to exercise just to stay well-functioning, and I don’t blame people who don’t do that at all.
- Comment on If you're falling apart at only 27 you're in real trouble 2 months ago:
That one is a bit of an HR emotional abuse so idk, do it at your own peril. Also it won’t help your muscles or bones